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On-line Resources
- Beautiful article: The Human Lake by Carl Zimmer. How GE Huthchinson became the father of modern ecology, taking it from simple natural history to experimental and theoretical ecology. Read it!
TED Talk on bio-magnification in ocean food chains
- And this article from Science Daily outlines the work of a team of researchers as they demonstrate biomagnification in a simple food chain, with links to vesicles.
- Rocky Shore Transect, from the British Ecological Society
- Biomes of the world animation, from McGraw Hill
- Terrestrial biomes animation, from Freeman LifeWire
TED Talk – Why I’m a weekday vegetarian
When you watch it, think about how it related to issues of energy flow and the land needed to produce for a meat-eating diet.
When you watch it, think about how it related to issues of energy flow and the land needed to produce for a meat-eating diet.
- Primary succession on a glacial moraine, from Freeman LifeWire
- Forest succession, from Wiley
- Forest succession, from Ecoplexity
- Collection of succession animations, from Nodvin Environmental Science
- Do succession and disturbance explain why we live in dangerous places?
- Succession Quiz
- Fantastic resource by the Field Studies Council on Ecology fieldwork and succession in sand dunes, saltmarshes and
ponds
Another fantastic TED talk by Nathaniel Manning on the carbon cycle